Graphics Card for Vista

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Hi all ... Can anyone recommend a good Video card for Vista. The one I have
wont give me scrolling windows. It also is a bit jerky with the Media
Centre. I am in the UK. Thx
 
Stuart Frith said:
Hi all ... Can anyone recommend a good Video card for Vista. The one I
have wont give me scrolling windows. It also is a bit jerky with the Media
Centre. I am in the UK. Thx
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Which one do you have?
What MB do you have to go with it?
Do you prefer ATI or nVidia?
 
For around 100 US dollars, you can get more than enough card in a ATI1600XT
or a Nvidia 7600GS, which has 256MB of dedicated ram. They would be on the
over kill side, but it's a good investment if your not a heavy duty gamer.

If you want to go as cheap as possible, you could look at cards like the ATI
9200\9600 or a Nvidia 5200\5600.
 
Dale "Mad_Murdock" White said:
For around 100 US dollars, you can get more than enough card in a
ATI1600XT or a Nvidia 7600GS, which has 256MB of dedicated ram. They would
be on the over kill side, but it's a good investment if your not a heavy
duty gamer.

If you want to go as cheap as possible, you could look at cards like the
ATI 9200\9600 or a Nvidia 5200\5600.


- chop-
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ATI 9200 series will not do Aero and Windows would default to Vista Basic
mode. One would be better getting a 9600 series to get the Vista
Standard/Aero.
 
Buy a $100 for a video card that can do Aero glass and 3D flip.

Or buy an Intel DG965 chipset motherboard with build-in graphic for
$100-120 that can also do same thing.
 
Opps, you'e right, I meant the 9500 series. But looking at the price of
those old cards, you' might as well go with the X1300\X1600 family.

Why the heck would a 9550 be priced at $90, when you can get an X700 for $59
?

So I'll change my statement altogether, If ATI go for the X300\X700 on the
low end. X1300\X1600 on the mid range, or just get crazy and grab a
X1800\X1900 on the high end

On the nvidia side, you can grab a 5200 card for $39, else go for the 7300
for around $55. On the mid range grab yourself a 7600 on the higher grab a
7900 and on the extreme get a 8800
 
Stuart Frith said:
Hi all ... Can anyone recommend a good Video card for Vista. The one I
have wont give me scrolling windows. It also is a bit jerky with the Media
Centre. I am in the UK. Thx
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I am in the UK and have an ATi Radeon X300, which is about the cheapest PCIe
card you can get that handles Aero. I bought it to work with a new
workstation that I built, while I was waiting for the ATi FireGL V5200 card
to arrive. The X300 was only used for one week. Email me if you are
interested (remove spamtrap).

ss.
 
Dale "Mad_Murdock" White said:
Opps, you'e right, I meant the 9500 series. But looking at the price of
those old cards, you' might as well go with the X1300\X1600 family.

Why the heck would a 9550 be priced at $90, when you can get an X700 for
$59 ?

So I'll change my statement altogether, If ATI go for the X300\X700 on the
low end. X1300\X1600 on the mid range, or just get crazy and grab a
X1800\X1900 on the high end

On the nvidia side, you can grab a 5200 card for $39, else go for the 7300
for around $55. On the mid range grab yourself a 7600 on the higher grab a
7900 and on the extreme get a 8800
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My 9250 cards didn't do it for the beta's Aero which meant another 'round of
graphics card purchasing. I found out that 9500 series did do Aero, but I
got good deals on cards with the 9600 chips so that's what I use(d). I also
use an ATI 9800 and an nVidia for PCI-e.
 
nofumble said:
Buy a $100 for a video card that can do Aero glass and 3D flip.

Or buy an Intel DG965 chipset motherboard with build-in graphic for
$100-120 that can also do same thing.
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Yes, a buyer should make sure the card does Aero (WDDM) and has enough
graphics power to do so at sufficent resolution if it is a large monitor.
 
I don't know if your MOBO - (present card) is AGP but if so then you
only have a few choices.

I just bought a BFG 7800GS and I'm not happy with it. When I boot my
monitor screen remains black even though I can hear Vista booting up.
With this card I now have to press the power-off button on the 19"
ViewSonic LCD monitor and then press it again to turn the power back on
to the monitor each time I boot. Not the ideal.

BFG did authorize an RMA but the replacement card does the same thing.
They offered to RMA again but didn't answer my question as to whether or
not they could guarantee a 3rd card would perform as expected. The RMA
Postage from Hawaii to BFG is too high to gamble so I opted to keep the
card.

The 7800GS card works fine with Vista. To their credit BFG cards are
warranted for life and they provide 24/7 support.

Kerry
 
Cari (MS-MVP) said:
AGP or PCI-E?
Budget?
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I have a K7S5A MB (AGP) with a GeForce2 64MB card right now.
I think my best bet on that is to upgrade to the GeForce5 256MB card for
about $53 (with shipping from newegg)
 
I picked up an XFX 7900GS, PCI-E, 256 DDR3 from NewEgg for $179 - $30 rebate
= $149, and it kicks butt (well, let me temper that - Flight Simulator STILL
is unusable full tilt - what in the heck video card did they use while
developing it!?!?!?!).

Plus, it's slightly overclocked from the factory a 525mHz, and it EASILY
overclocked to 575 using their tool.
 
I have a K7S5A MB (AGP) with a GeForce2 64MB card right now.
I think my best bet on that is to upgrade to the GeForce5 256MB card for
about $53 (with shipping from newegg)
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OK -- you are very much at the old end for going to Vista, that's a
motherboard that supports only slower AMD XP CPU's (up to XP2600 and
only 266MHz bus), along with slower RAM and max AGP of 4x and maximum
installed memory of 1G.

Are you sure you want to upgrade with this hardware?

The K7S5A was an excellent budget board in its day (I deployed scores
of them about 3 or 4 years ago -- mostly with Windows 2K). But it is
seriously outdated in 2007.
 
BSchnur said:
OK -- you are very much at the old end for going to Vista, that's a
motherboard that supports only slower AMD XP CPU's (up to XP2600 and
only 266MHz bus), along with slower RAM and max AGP of 4x and maximum
installed memory of 1G.

Are you sure you want to upgrade with this hardware?

The K7S5A was an excellent budget board in its day (I deployed scores
of them about 3 or 4 years ago -- mostly with Windows 2K). But it is
seriously outdated in 2007.
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I figure if I get that video card upgrade it should be Vista capable, though
it would be a low end Vista PC, so I'm currently running WinME on it and
plan to upgrade it to XP. I'll probably end up buying a new PC before I get
to Vista. I think that video card might allow me to run the newest game I
got though (Star Wars Lego) that says it requires a video card that can do
pixel shading and recommends nVidia.
 
OK -- in terms of a graphics card -- look to something like an ATI 9600
-- they provide the performance boost and are supported by ATI in Vista
(older cards -- 9250SE for example -- have generic support only).

Also, on that existing system, sort of a choice -- but look to max out
RAM to 1G (you can do this with either 2 512M PC133 or 2 512M PC2100
modules as that motherboard was one of the crossover motherboards and
supported both types of RAM available at that time).
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
I am in the UK and have an ATi Radeon X300, which is about the cheapest PCIe
card you can get that handles Aero. I bought it to work with a new
workstation that I built, while I was waiting for the ATi FireGL V5200 card
to arrive. The X300 was only used for one week. Email me if you are
interested (remove spamtrap).
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The K7S5A motherboard doesn't do PCIe, only AGP.
 
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